Background
Newman, Albert Henry was born on August 25, 1852 in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States. Son of John B. and Harriett (Whitaker) Newman.
Newman, Albert Henry was born on August 25, 1852 in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States. Son of John B. and Harriett (Whitaker) Newman.
Bachelor of Arts, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 1871. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1875. Graduate student Hebrew, Armaic, Arabic, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1875-1876.
Doctor of Laws, Southwestern Baptist University, 1883, McMaster University, 1914, Mercer University, 1921.
Doctor of Divinity, Mercer University, 1885.
Acting professor, 1877-1880, Pettingill professor church history, 1880-1881, Rochester Theological Seminary. Professor church history, McMaster University, Toronto, Ontario, 1881-1901, Baylor University, Texas, 1901-1908. Professor church history and dean, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, 1908-1913.
Professor church history, Baylor University, 1913-1921.
Professor church history, Mercer University, 1921-1929 (professor emeritus). Professorial lecturer church history, U. Chicago, 1906 and 1926.
Professor church history and comparative religion, Vanderbilt University, 1917-1918. Visiting professor of church history, McMaster University, autumn 1927 and 1928-1929.
Author: The Baptist Churches in the United States, 1894.
History of Anti-Pædobaptism to Anno Domini 1609, 1897. Manual of Church History (2 volumes), 1900, 1903. A Century of Baptist Achievement, 1901.
Translator and editor Immer’s Hermeneutics of the New Testament, 1877.
Anti-Manichean Works of Augustine, Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers. Department editor for church history of the new Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, since 1905.
Address: Austin, Texas
Married Mary Augusta Ware, July 15, 1873. Children: Horatio Hackett, Elizabeth Nuckolls (Mistress Frederick Eby), Henry Ware, Albert Broadus.
